Gordon Dahl

Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego; Research Associate, NBER; Research Fellow, IZA; and Fellow of the Stanford Center of Study of Poverty and Inequality

Gordon B. Dahl is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and a Fellow of the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality. Previously, he was a faculty member at the University of Rochester and held visiting positions at the University of California, Berkeley and Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1998 and his B.A. from Brigham Young University in 1993.

Dahl's research interests are in labour economics and applied microeconomics, including a wide set of issues that range from the effect of income on child achievement, to peer effects among coworkers and family members, to the determinants of family violence, to applied econometrics. His articles have appeared in The American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.